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   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   Whatcher?  wrote   
   > Rod Speed  wrote   
   >> Whatcher?  wrote   
   >>> Rod Speed  wrote   
   >>>> TyBreaker  wrote   
   >>>>> rod.speed@gmail.com wrote   
      
   >>>>>> Weird. I've just noticed that my laptop always synchs up 5 mins   
   >>>>>> later than the other systems on the lan and it has done that for   
   >>>>>> months.   
      
   >>>>>> While its normally connected to the lan by wireless, I get   
   >>>>>> exactly the same result when its plugged into the lan too.   
      
   >>>>>> Makes no difference which time server I use.   
      
   >>>>>> Completely standard XP Home, and the manual resynchs   
   >>>>>> are quite happy, just gets the time wrong by 5 mins.   
      
   >>>>> I point my computers at au.pool.ntp.org and their web site   
   >>>>> mentions that it is possible to come up with variations in time   
   >>>>> by a few minutes because it depends on the accuracy of the   
   >>>>> publicly managed servers in that pool.   
      
   >>>> Cant be that, because all of the PCs/laptop are using the same   
   >>>> time server and particularly the one which alarms when the   
   >>>> ABC TV News starts, is always within a second of the real time.   
      
   >>>>> I was thinking that one scenario could be that your laptop has   
   >>>>> picked up it's time from an NTP server that isn't accurate.   
      
   >>>> Nope, its the same one that the others use.   
      
   >>> Just at a guess, your CMOS time and system time are always different   
   >>> and every time you reboot, the CMOS time resets the system time.   
      
   >> Doesnt explain why doing a manual update using the internet   
   >> time synch produces a system time thats 5 mins in advance.   
      
   > It might actually   
      
   Nope. Easy to prove that its not that by not   
   rebooting the laptop and still seeing the problem.   
      
   > but that goes WAY beyond my programming skills.   
      
   Its got nothing to do with programming, just basic diagnosis.   
      
   If the problem persists with manual internet time synchs   
   without a reboot of the laptop, it can be the cmos time   
   because the cmos time isnt being used in that situation.   
      
   > I think it depends on which takes priority.   
      
   Nope, because there is no priority if you dont reboot.   
      
   >> Guess one possibility come to think of it is that the internet time   
   >> synch isnt actually updating the system time for some reason, in   
   >> other words the time returned by the synch is just ignored.   
      
   >> Hmm, just fixed it. To test that particular theory, I manually set   
   >> the time to about 5 mins earlier than the correct time. Then did   
   >> a manual synch with internet time, and its now got the correct time.   
      
   >> So presumably it was binning the internet time for some reason   
   >> until I manually set it earlier than the correct time. Weird.   
      
   > So is it now ALWAYS OK?   
      
   Yes. I'll do some more tests tomorrow to see whether the problem   
   is just the difference between the system time and the internet time   
   that sees the update ignored. In other words if the amount of time   
   update is greater than a particular amount of time, it bins the net time.   
      
   I know that it does that when the system time is days   
   wrong, but in that case it does say that the synch has failed   
   and its hard to see why it would do that with just 5 mins.   
      
   > Eg, reboot and resync and is it correct?   
      
   Yep. Tho if your possibility was what was happening, only a   
   reboot would be needed to see a reversion to the bad time.   
      
   Didnt happen with either a reboot or a resynch.   
      
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